Daring Dames: A 5-Step Guide to Wellness - Paperback

by Jacqueline Gikow (Author)

Discover a higher level of personal health and wellbeing. With small steps for improvement, Daring Dames: A 5-Step Guide to Wellness, offers guidance and tools. Transform awareness into sustainable lifestyle change. Renew your sense of health and wellness.You can begin to appreciate yourself as a growing, changing person. Allow yourself to move toward a happier life and positive health.This 5-step guide can help you: -Get more active-Increase your happiness level -Get off the diet merry-go-round-Discover how to have more energy-Learn to use small steps to change your habitsHealth vs. WellnessThe term "health" is often used interchangeably with "wellness." But health and wellness are not synonyms. Health refers to a physical body being free from diseases. Wellness is balance. It includes our physical, social, spiritual, emotional, intellectual, environmental, and occupational well-being. Health is someone wants to lose weight and lower their blood pressure. Once she does this, she considers herself healthy. Health is a goal to achieve. Wellness is a dynamic concept that continues throughout a lifetime.Wellness expands our idea of health beyond the simple presence or absence of disease. Wellness refers to optimal health and vitality - to living life to its fullest. Wellness is a way of living. Wellness is a dynamic throughout our lifetime. We have to exert extra effort to experience wellness. We are, thus, asked to take some kind of action.Health is a state of being. Wellness is about striving for your best balance of all the dimensions above. Wellness is a continuum. In Daring Dames: A 5-Step Guide to Wellness, you can apply the above questions to each of the following steps: Chapter 1. Step 1 - Get Active & Get HealthyThe first step to wellness is a call to action. I know getting healthy isn't easy! But start now and you'll notice a difference right away. Become fit and you improve your endurance, flexibility and strength. Chapter 2. Step 2 - Manage Your Weight by Eating WelOh yeah, your food. Whether we're happy with our weight or not food is always on our minds. Enjoying what we eat is part of what will keep us motivated. We won't get there by beating ourself up every time we get off track. We get there by being kind to ourselves, having fun and learning along the way.Chapter 3. Step 3 - The Fall Factor; Build Balance and FlexibilityIn the United States, one in three adults, aged 65 and older falls each year. They may suffer moderate to severe injuries, or increase their risk of early death. Taking control of your health to lower your risk of falling. Improve your balance, which tends to decline as we get older.Chapter 4. Step 4 -- Mood Modifiers; Choose to be HappierThis step shows how to make a conscious choice to boost your level of happiness. Research reports that we are happier as we get older. But many people don't realize that happiness is a choice. Once you decide to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness.Chapter 5. Step 5 - Habit and Rituals; Finding Magic in the MundaneThis last step may be the key to achieving the first four. Think about the insignificant decisions you make each day that you take for granted. What if small tweaks to your decisions and actions enhances your life?